Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time last week in the small Jerusalem courtroom, it was Jew v. Jew. Stately Baron Pinhas von Freudiger (his grandfather had been ennobled by Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef), who was formerly a prominent Jewish leader in Budapest, took the witness stand. As he emotionally described his dealings with Adolf Eichmann in an effort to save the lives of Hungary's 1,000,000 Jews, a squat, burly man in a golfer's cap leaped to his feet screaming "Hypocrite! You duped us so you could save yourselves and your families! Our families were killed. You have...
Doorstep Murder. While police hustled the kicking, screaming man from the court, Baron von Freudiger brushed tears from his eyes. The interruption was a grim reminder of the bitterness that still ravages the Hungarian Jews who escaped Nazi annihilation. Some survivors insist that rich Jews bought their freedom by shipping poor Jews to the ovens of Auschwitz. One of the baron's colleagues. Dr. Rudolf Kastner, was denounced by an Israeli court in 1955 for his dealings with the Nazis. Later, Kastner was murdered on his doorstep by vengeful Jews...
...Lord Stanley of Alderley, 6th Baron Sheffield of Roscommon, Baron Eddisbury of Winnington and a Baronet, served in a trawler, an ex-U.S. destroyer, a gunboat, during World War II, never in a corvette. For a comparison of corvettes, see cuts...
...Joan of the Stockyards (1929) is wholly in the first category. Pierpont Mauler is a crush-as-crush-can Chicago meat baron. When a careless worker falls into the meat machinery at Mauler's plant, he is tinned with the product. This sort of thing makes Brecht's caricature of capitalists both hopelessly dated and immensely funny to a modern American audience. Joan Dark (Jeanne d'Arc), the girl who stands up to Mauler, is a parody figure mostly modeled on Shaw's Major Barbara-a Salvation Army-type lassie who belongs to an evangelical group...
...family Victrola as down payment for a piano. "When she came home from school." says Kate, "that child had one-half of a fit." On the other side of town, on North Fifth Avenue, lived the Alexander Chisholms. Elizabeth Wisner Chisholm was the daughter of a lumber baron, and Alexander Chisholm a Vermonter who met his wife while she was a music major at Smith...